I am still kind of new to working with Cucumber/Maven/Junit in Eclipse, but I’ve noticed that once in a while (quite frequently) some of the lines in a .feature file suddenly has some “orange” lines.

I was working with one of the more experienced devs and he said “just do Maven->Update Project” and sure enough that cleaned up the problem and now all the step lines have the green circle.

I ran into this again tonight and also noticed that in the Eclipse console warnings there were a bunch of “glue missing” warnings.

So now, I am curious: (a) what causes those “orange” lines to “suddenly” appear like that and (b) is there a way to avoid them appearing like that randomly? Or is it just the way that things work with Cucumber/Maven/Junit projects in Eclipse?

Thanks,
Jim

P.S. I don’t have an example to take screenshots right now but if I encounter one I will add to this question.